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Usage data could be very useful for decisions on what to dedicate die area to, and how to price products. They might find that a market segment doesn't do a lo
by gnode 7y ago
Usage data could be very useful for decisions on what to dedicate die area to, and how to price products.
They might find that a market segment doesn't do a lot of playing 3D games, but does spend a lot of time watching Youtube on battery, and so make the decision to drop integrated GPU shader cores and dedicate more die area to video decoding, to make energy efficiency better when watching video.
- Faark 7y agoBut now we are not speculating about potential new additions, we want to know utilization of existing circuits to allocate resources & improve in the future. I'd hope this could be measured without collecting a ton of personal data.
- gnode 7y agoThese goals blur together. R&D effort, and usage of die area are all justified by market potential. Knowing how large the market for a technology or tradeoff actually is has value. > I'd hope this could be measured without collecting a ton of personal data. Intel's claim is that they don't: "we would like your permission to collect [...] The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself" also the privacy safeguarding statement at the top of the page. The whole purpose of CIP is to gather data on actual users' computing needs. For many computer users, the web is most of their computing experience -- it seems appropriate therefore to include usage of the web in the program. Much like any customer experience study, privacy is an issue. Intel do at least claim to be mitigating the impact to privacy.